| Question 1: Most competing platforms have either died off or been relegated to niche, enthusiast markets like the ________. | |||
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| Question 2: ________ used this technique from its earliest incarnations. | |||
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| Question 3: In a crucial concession, IBM's agreement allowed Microsoft to sell its own version, ________, for non-IBM platforms. | |||
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| Question 4: ________, WYSIWYG word processors, presentation software and remote communication software established new markets that exploited the PC's strengths, but required capabilities beyond what MS-DOS provided. | |||
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| Question 5: End-users could readily upgrade peripherals and to some degree, processor and memory without modifying the computer's motherboard or replacing the whole computer, as was the case with many of the ________ of the time. | |||
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| Question 6: There was no Microsoft-branded MS-DOS: MS-DOS could not be purchased directly from Microsoft, and each OEM release was packaged with the ________ of the given PC vendor. | |||
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| Question 7: Until then Microsoft was primarily focused on computer languages such as ________. | |||
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| Question 8: On 12 August 1981, the first ________ went on sale. | |||
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| Question 9: The ________ on "conventional" system memory available to MS-DOS is a legacy of that period; other non-clone machines did not have this limit. | |||
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| Question 10: Descendants of the IBM PC compatibles make up the majority of ________ on the market today, although interoperability with the bus structure and peripherals of the original PC architecture may be limited or non-existent. | |||
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